Tonight at 8pm Blick Shared Studios will be hosting a live event about a new audio documentary they have created on the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic has had on a wide range of local creatives.
Hear from podcast co-creators Blick Shared Studios, The Infinite Jest, Karishma Kusurkar and Dr. Brian Dixon!
This event will be live on Instagram at 8pm and can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/blickstudios/
Future Screens NI were delighted to welcome industry trailblazer and BAFTA winner Brenda Romero to speak at Future Tuesdays on the 15th of September. Brenda was speaking on the hidden histories of the women who made a vital contribution to the advancement of computers and programming.
Brenda Romero is an award-winning game designer, Fulbright scholar, artist and entrepreneur who entered the video game industry in 1981. As a designer, she has contributed to many seminal titles, including the Wizardry and Jagged Alliance series and titles in the Ghost Recon and Dungeons & Dragons franchises. Away from the machine, her analog series of six games, The Mechanic is the Message, has drawn national and international acclaim, particularly Train and Síochán Leat (The Irish Game) which is presently housed in the National Museum of Play.
In 2017, she was awarded the Development Legend award at the Develop conference in the UK. In 2015, she won the coveted Ambassador’s Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards. In 2014, she received a Fulbright award to study Ireland’s game industry, academic and government policies. In 2013, she was named one of the top 10 game developers by Gamasutra.com and Develop magazine listed her among the 25 people who changed games in 2013. Romero co-owns Romero Games.
After our pilot project in 2019, we are excited to be running the next Pop-Up Design Museum this year in Belfast city centre featuring commissioned designers, universities, partners and public facing engagement and as the central project of Belfast Design Week 2020.
Our commissioned designers will include Concrete Clouds (Architecture), The First 47 (Conceptual Design), Elham Hemmat (Activism), Queens of Archive (Fashion), Two Digs (Graphic Design) & Emma Stewart (Photography).
We are opening up our website to submissions for The People’s Gallery - a page featuring design objects submitted by the general public and the objects’ significance.
Our theme for the year is “Environment” and the exhibit will show the many variations and interpretations of this theme, from sustainability to political environment and urban design.
With the changing scenario around the Covid-19 pandemic and concerns around health and safety, we are going to ensure our museum is socially distanced, using venues’ outside facing windows and outdoor spaces for example. We will be developing our digital offering to allow visitors to the museum to view the work and design stories on the pop up site you are currently on. An added benefit with this will be that visitors around the world can get a glimpse into the design heritage and contemporary design of Belfast, in turn benefiting those featured.
We are currently working behind the scenes to get the project ready and we would love for you to be a part of it through The People’s Gallery.
Whether we know it or not, we all consume design every day in many different forms. From the clothes we wear to the services we use, design is everywhere.The People’s Gallery is a celebration of the design that has impacted you in some way - big or small - and we invite you to submit works by your favourite designers, local and international, famous or lesser known.
Your nominated designs will be shared online in The People’s Gallery in the coming weeks.
Visit www.belfastdesignpopup.com/thepeoplesgallery to submit your favourite designs.
This project is supported by “Rewriting The Narrative”, a fund by Futurescreens NI
I’m Oisin, founder of DSNT & Visual Spectrum. We have produced some insane projects, parties and festivals over the past 10 years. I’m excited to bring that into an online learning experience.
This course is for aspiring artists that want to learn more about creating visual productions. It's for event producers that want to translate their ideas into a realistic vision. It's for musicians that want to produce a world class stage show. It's for filmmakers that want to have a better understanding of lights & visuals.
The course will include:
Learn from real-world case studies of large festival productions
Access to private students group
Access to templates, project files & more
On-demand access to all course materials
Festival & Events behind the scenes: AVA Festival, DSNT, Fuinneamh, Celtronic, Boxed Off Festival.
This is the course I wish I had 10 years ago - a fast track learning experience covering everything I’ve learned through pain, trial and error and receiving industry mentorship.
I’ve been producing high impact visual experiences for festivals & events, building ambitious art installations, running insane madness raves and I deliver visuals & lighting for over 300 of the biggest DJs in the world.
We will go through real world projects, my process for winning new clients, looking at every aspect to get it over the line. From pitch to production to liveshow.
We will learn about industry standard lighting solutions, software skills for creating and operating visuals.
We will go through case studies of projects we have delivered for world class festivals.
All content will be available on-demand and launches on the 30th of September, pre-registered students will get first access to behind the scenes content & private Facebook Group.
For more information on the course and tickets: https://visualspectrum.thinkific.com
This project has been funded by
Arts Council of Northern Ireland & Future Screens NI
During the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the most vulnerable people faced increased isolation, resulting in decreased opportunities for social interaction and physical activity - so vital for good mental and physical wellbeing. In addition, local artists and makers faced a loss of income and significant negative impact on their small businesses, due to closure of physical premises, local markets and craft fairs.
The act of creating something, and our and others, appreciation of it, provides an experience that can have positive effects on our physical and mental health. The current situation demands that opportunities to participate in, and connect with others through creative activities need to be made easily available, affordable and accessible. With that in mind, and with the support of Future Screens NI, Makers House at the Designerie Bushmills have created “The Makers Series”.
Funded by Future Screens NI- ‘Rewriting the Narrative’- The Maker’s Series comprises eight, easily accessible and free ‘virtual’ workshops, led by established local artists/makers, allowing those most in need to engage in creative activities and connect with others. The workshops introduce crafters, makers and artists to a range of traditional crafts and art forms that they may already be familiar with, but have not engaged with for some time (weaving, macrame) and new crafts and arts forms they may not have tried before (photography, needle felting, paper crafts). Each of the workshops will encourage viewers to explore their talent, through expansion and extension of learned skills, and to continue to develop and to express themselves creatively in their own time. All workshops feature clear audio and visual instructions and will also provide the option of free downloads of user friendly, printed instructions, featuring full colour photographs of each step.
Workshops are free, and carefully planned to keep material costs low, and/or will include materials viewers may already have at home. The artists of Makers House at the Designerie hope you enjoy them and would love to hear your feedback. Contact clairemcdowell256@gmail.com for more information.
